[fpc-pascal] Arrays in debugger; No range errors on arrays

[Lance Boyle]

On May 24, 2005, at 5:31 AM, Jonas Maebe wrote:

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> On 24 mei 2005, at 13:58, Lance Boyle wrote:
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>> As I've indicated in some of the comments, there appears to be some 
>> range checking issues--is range checking off by default?
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> Yes, it is. Add {$r+} at the top of your source to turn it on, or add 
> "-Cr" to the command line options of the compiler.

Thanks, Jonas.

Well--that's just lovely. How about getting this fixed? What other 
surprises should I know about before using FPC?

Side comment--It's partly the Pascal-dialect problem that is driving me 
to do most of my new programming in Ada (Ada = no dialects). For the 
interested:
(Mac users: go to www.macada.org for GNAT, a free, gcc-based, 
absolutely stunning Ada compiler that works with Xcode.)
(All: go to http://www.cs.nyu.edu/cs/faculty/schonber/gnat.html)
(To convert Pascal to Ada: Google p2ada)
(For a complete THINK Pascal library emulation in Ada, go to 
http://www.chez.com/blady/creations.html#ada_thp).

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>> A second issue is that arrays that begin with any index other than 0 
>> seem to be displayed incorrectly in the debugger window of Xcode.
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> That's a problem of gdb not properly supporting Pascal arrays, which 
> indeed can start at an index <> 0. There is a set of patches to create 
> gdbpas, which may have this fixed, but I haven't built it for Mac OS X 
> yet (also, you'd probably have to overwrite the system's gdb with this 
> gdbpas for XCode to use it).

I wonder if I would be able to specify gdbpas only when using FPC and 
the regular gdb otherwise? (And the Ada-patched gdb for Ada 8^) ?

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> Jonas
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